Health calendar
The Health Calendar is a listing of support groups, activities and lectures. Send information to Health Calendar, The Augusta Chronicle Newsroom, P.O. Box 1928, Augusta, GA 30903-1928. Send information by fax to (706) 722-7403 and send e-mail to newsroom@augustachronicle.com. Please include a contact name and phone number.

School councils
The River Ridge Elementary School Council will meet at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 16.

Vacation Gallery
Kim and Gerry McMahon and daughters Sara and Miranda Rice visited the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta, where they had their photo taken with the Coke polar bear, who seemed to have a fondness for Miranda's head.

Police blotter
The following accounts were taken from reports from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office. Additional reports are available at www.columbiacountyso.org:

Chamber, school board need to talk
Five of the most civic-minded people in Columbia County serve on the county's Board of Education. Some of the county's smartest business people serve on the board of the Chamber of Commerce.

Guy Terry Jr.: Not just cars
Guy Terry Jr. was buried Aug. 23 at Crown Hill Cemetery in Albany with full military honors, as a crowd of friends and family paid their last respects.

County teams are heating up gridiron
With the first games of high school football in Columbia County now in the record books, the second week gets off to a huge start with all four county teams playing a county opponent this Friday.